UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

 

Humanities 5                                                                                                                        Professor David Luft

Spring Quarter, 2008                                       Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 2-3 pm, HSS 6012

 

Mar   31   Industrial and Democratic Revolutions

Apr     2   Nineteenth-Century Liberalism

Apr     4   Discussion: Mill, On Liberty

                                    Mill, “On the Nature of Women” (Reader)

 

Apr     7   The Early Marx

Apr     9   Orthodox Marxism

Apr   11   Discussion: The Portable Marx, pp. xi-xlv, 131-146, 203-241, 437-461

 

Apr   14   Schopenhauer as Educator

Apr   16   The Young Nietzsche

Apr   18   Discussion: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator (Reader)

 

Apr   21   The Origins of Psychoanalysis

Apr   23   The Theory of Civilization

Apr   25   Discussion: Civilization and Its Discontents

 

Apr   28   Franz Kafka

Apr   30   "The Metamorphosis" (pp. 67-132)

May     Discussion: Kafka, pp. 9-17, 27-29, 144-145

                                   Musil, Selected Writings (Reader)

  

May    5   The First World War

May     War and Revolution

May    9   Discussion: Barraclough and Holborn (Reader)

   

May  12   Hannah Arendt and National Socialism

May  14   Stalin and Totalitarianism

May  16   Discussion: The Origins of Totalitarianism, pp. vii-xl, 3-28, 35-42, 389-479

 

May  19   The Other

May  21   The Second Sex

May  23   No class

  Reading: The Second Sex (Reader)

 

May  26   Memorial Day

May  28   Jean-Paul Sartre

May  30   What is Existentialism?

                Reading: Essays in Existentialism, pp. 3-73, 147-160

 

Jun      Discussion: de Beauvoir and Sartre

Jun    4   The Writer and the Tradition

Jun    6   Discussion/Review

              Reading: A Room of One's Own

 

            

FINAL EXAM:  Monday, June 9, 8:00 am-11:00 am, York 2622

 

 

Students who would like to order copies of the course reader can contact University Readers at www.universityreaders.com or 800-200-3908.  Instead of selling the readers outside class, University Readers now sends copies directly to students who order them.

 

UCSD has a university-wide Policy on Integrity of Scholarship, which is on the web at http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/manual/appendices/app2.htm.  You are responsible for understanding and acting in accordance with UCSD guidelines on academic integrity.

 

REVELLE HUMANITIES WRITING PROGRAM

 

The Humanities Office is located in Galbraith Hall, room 180.   The phone number is (858) 534-3311 or x43311 if calling on campus.

 

TA office locations and office hours are posted on bulletin board outside room 180.    The Humanities Office does NOT date stamp late papers.  It is YOUR responsibility to deliver all papers and other required assignments to your TA by the stated deadline.  If you cannot,  prior arrangements must be made with your TA. 

 

Revelle Humanities is online!  Find us at http://humanities.ucsd.edu

Information available on the website includes syllabi, writing assignments,  texts online, writing advice, artwork, and much more!

 

Important Information

Students are expected to submit only their own work on papers and examinations. While you may discuss the assignments with others in the class, collaboration on the preparation of a paper is not permitted. Unless the assignment specifically directs otherwise, papers should be based entirely on your own study of the assigned material and not on secondary sources of any kind.

Turning in someone else's work, whether from printed sources or material available electronically, as if it were your own constitutes plagiarism. Plagiarism is an act of intellectual dishonesty. The academic consequences of plagiarism range from failure for the tainted assignment to failure for the course, depending on the seriousness of the offense. All such offenses are reported to the college dean, who will impose additional administrative consequences, which can include suspension or expulsion from the university.

Examples of plagiarism include, but are not limited to the following: turning in another student's paper as if it were your own; collaboration with another student in writing the paper; quoting, paraphrasing, or borrowing ideas from published or unpublished material written by someone other than yourself, without specific acknowledgment of the source.

If you have any questions about what constitutes plagiarism, you should consult with your section instructor.

Add/Drop Deadlines - IMPORTANT

 

Last day to add . . . . . . . . . . . . April 11                                            Last day to drop w/o a "W" . . . . . . April 25

Last day to drop w/o a "F". . . .May 30

 

 

Papers, final exams, and course grades are to be picked up from your TA.  You must make arrangements prior to the quarter's end with your TA--we suggest leaving a self-addressed stamped postcard or envelope so your work can be mailed directly to you.